Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

In response to a troll, I shared the latest energy mix numbers. And folks - I didn't realize we were this far already!

Anybody who still says crap like "you mean your coal-powered car?" is just woefully misinformed.

I mean, I knew that, but I didn't realize it was quite this extreme.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

Signs you have carpenter ants:

* keep finding tiny tools
* city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
* “when you try to move a book” you are told to “keep this entrance clear,ma’am” because of the “cement delivery coming later”
* Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
* no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
* husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

My pretty picture from the BGStats app!

We have all the A, all the B, and three days of C games from our #BoardGamesAtoZ challenge.

Plays for January. Didn't even play enough different games to fill the 3x3 grid :(

#BGStats #BoardGames #BoardGame #TableTop #TableTopGames

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

#BlackMastodon

The Climbers is a perfectly respectable spatial reasoning game. It's not as good as Pueblo, but it's fine.

I suspect it would be more challenging with more players. With only two, you don't have to think about whether or not there will be room for you on that choice step when your turn comes around.

@peterdrake and I agree that it's too bad the ladders don't stay on the tower after you place and use one on your turn.

#BoardGamesAtoZ #BoardGames

Florida schools looking familiar for some reason.

You don't have to be racist to participate in systemic racism. US policing produces racist outcomes even from "not-racist" people. I'm going to explain (again):

* why I've probably been pulled over way more times than most people you know, even though most of the times I'm pulled over, I get no ticket (because I did nothing wrong)
* how I stopped getting pulled over so much (because I understand the system)
* And why lots of cops say that the average voter is more racist than the average cop

Tonight at 7:30 pm Eastern you can watch me get crushed in the first Cosmic Encounter Invitational!

Some of the best Cosmic players (of which I am *not* one) will be playing against designers Jack Reda and Bill Eberle on Tabletop Simulator.

Watch on the Future Pastimes Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/futurepastimesgames

#CosmicEncounter #tabletop #tabletopgames #wargame #wargames #wargaming #scifi #sciencefiction #tabletopgaming #SF #sff

This mind meld could've been an email.

#TuvokTuesday #StarTrek